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Communion And LiberationCommunion and Liberation, or CL, is an ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church. CL began in Italy in 1954 and grew out of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's experience teaching students at Berchet high school in Milan. This ecclesial movement was originally known as Giovent Studentesca (Student Youth). The name "Communion and Liberation" did not appear until 1969. CL describes its purpose as "the education to Christian maturity of its adherents and collaboration in the mission of the Church in all the spheres of contemporary life". It grew out of an attempt by Monsignor Luigi Giussani to communicate the awareness that Christ is the one true response to the deepest needs of people at every moment of history. It requires only that Christ be recognized as immediately present. The person who encounters and welcomes the presence of Christ undergoes a conversion that affects not only the individual but also the surrounding environment. The movement spread rapidly throughout Italy and is now present in some seventy countries around the world, including people of all ages and in every occupation at every level of society. Recommended reading - Luigi Giussani: The Religious Sense, McGill-Queen's University Press (October 1, 1997). ISBN 0773516263.
- Luigi Guissani: At The Origin of the Christian Claim, McGill-Queen's University Press (January 1, 1998). ISBN 0773516271.
- Luigi Giussani: Why the Church?, McGill-Queen's University Press (October, 2000). ISBN 0773517073.
- Luigi Giussani: Communion and Liberation: a Movement in the Church, McGill-Queen's University Press (April 1, 2000). ISBN 0773520317.
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